Pharmaceutical Companies File Lawsuit Against County's Drug Take-Back …

Pharmaceutical Companies File Lawsuit Against County's Drug Take-Back …

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All three industry groups are based in Washington, D.C.. When the ordinance was passed, Board of Supervisors President Nate Miley said it is needed because the … In passing the measure, the board said another reason for the ordinance is that …
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Existing drugs may help more with breast cancer

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More patients can benefit from highly effective breast cancer drugs that are already available, according to DNA sequencing studies by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other institutions. The investigators found …
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Salmonella and Peanut Butter: Victims' Stories

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A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the end of the Salmonella outbreak tied to Trader Joe's peanut butter made by Sunland Inc. in New Mexico. In total, at least 42 people in 20 …. In April 2007 …
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Christie: War on Drugs a ‘failure’… – New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called the war on drugs a “failure” during a speech at the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution on Monday, and tied his objection to the decades-long campaign to his anti-abortion stance. According to Christie, drug offenders in New Jersey are sent “back out on the street after their time of incarceration” with “no treatment.” He said this was the reason “why recidivism rates go up and why they don’t get better.” “For all first-time non-violent drug offenders, we have to make drug treatment mandatory,” Christie said. “Because, if you’re pro-life, as I am, you can’t be pro-life just in the womb. Every life is precious, and every one of God’s creatures can be redeemed, but they won’t be if we ignore them.” “We have the obligation to understand that addiction is a disease and that we need to give people a chance to overcome that disease and restore dignity and meaning to their lives,” he added. Christie also used his time to compare Obamacare’s rules governing Medicaid amounted to “extortion,” and said he was glad that that provision was struck down by the Supreme Court. “I was glad that the Supreme Court ruled that extortion is still illegal in America,” he said. “And that’s a relief because Obamacare on Medicaid to the states was extortion. It essentially said, you expand your program to where we tell you, and if you don’t, we’re taking all the rest of your money away. Well that’s extortion. It was in a whole bunch of nice words in the …